From acclaimed investigative reporter Kyle Swenson, Great Kids, Bad City is the real story of the longest wrongful jail time in the United States to end in exoneration, and an important social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.
In the early 1970 s, 3 African-American males– Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson– were implicated and founded guilty of the ruthless break-in and murder of a male beyond a corner store in Cleveland, Ohio.
The prosecution’s case, which led to an integrated 106 years in jail for the 3 guys, rested on the more-than-questionable statement of a pre-teen, Ed Vernon. The real killer was never ever discovered.
Practically 4 years later on, Vernon recanted his testament, and Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were launched. While their exoneration might have ended one of American history’s most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city accountable for their jail time stay on trial.
Linking the remarkable information of the case with Cleveland’s history– one that, to this day, is stuffed with systemic discrimination and racial stress– Swenson exposes how this outrage happened and why.
Excellent Kids, Bad City is a work of amazing compassion and insight: an immersive expedition of race in America, the having a hard time Midwest, and how lost lives can be recuperated.
https://criminaljusticecourses.net/excellent-kids-bad-city-a-story-of-race-and-wrongful-conviction-in-america/
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